![]() A filmmaker.) So immediately there were great shifts occurring in the areas that we walked through. He shot Doug and I walking in pitch dark for two hours because it might yield a good shot. (A side note here - Tim is a true film maker. So, off we traipsed with Tim running ahead to get footage then, as we walked by, he would pick up the camera and run ahead like a madman again to get another approaching shot. The start at the Main Library was small with Bunny Sparber and Coco Mault joining us to record the beginning of the walk for their podcast “Omaha Party”. I could only rely on Doug, Tim, and Jaim to tell me if I was doing something crazy that they would tell me and also on the fact that, at the base of it, all I had to do was walk, and I had learned how to do that a long time ago. I really had no idea how this would go or what I was doing. ![]() A rare, talented, loving group of people. ![]() The experience of community was so strong with them. These three and the energy they brought to the walk was one of the best aspects to the whole project for me. These three artists have a deeply generous impulse and are all filled with wild imagination and energy. I can say without any hesitation that the walk would have never lasted through a single day if it was not for their help and support. The best idea that I had with this whole project was to ask Doug Hayko, Jaim Hackbart and Tim Guthrie if they would help me in whatever way they felt they could. I think I will be doing much more of that. I found a lot of peace just walking for hours. Something in me has been moved and it doesn’t seem like it will move back into its old place. My feet are healing slowly and I am not walking like a sore rodeo clown quite as badly today. For a period of time the life created by the project makes everything so very intense and suddenly it comes to a stop. Tonight I am suffering from the depression that always comes when a very intense project ends. I highly recommend following their work in this area. (At one point we just stopped and looked through the trees out over the huge valley of the Platte.) He spoke eloquently about their work with Shifting Thresholds which explores this idea of city as a region very deeply and in many different ways. Nick Rebeck was kind enough to come out and walk with me for the most western portion of the walk. She explained a bit about how, if the city is thought of and designed as a region sustainability might be possible. It caused them consternation that I picked the city limits as demarcated by the city government as a guide for my walk. Anne Trumble left me several intense messages about how hard they have been working to bring out the idea of the city as a region. The landscape is indeed rolling, from the river all the way up to the hills above the Platte River valley, and it keeps extending out in every direction.Įmerging Terrain. On the walk most of the places that I moved slowly through were places that I had never been to or seen, or perhaps only once or twice very briefly as I drove quickly past inside my car. As always happens when making art, something bigger moves in and takes over if you let it. I also needed to try to find a deeper connection to our landscape, to this place that I call home. I needed to try to get back in touch with my body traveling through space of its own accord. I needed to step away from these patterns for a few days. It makes me sad when these things begin to take up the majority of my time. Is there a connection between the idea of city and the idea of community? If so, where is that intersection? I have been spending so much time on my computer for work lately and then driving to so many places that are so far apart for meetings and classes and meals and a thousand other things. I have been wondering what this place is that we call the city. Approximately 70 miles, 3 days, 2 nights and some tired feet
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